Sanitary appliance.



B. WORTHINGTON. SANITARY APPLIANCB.

APPLICATION FILED MAR.15. 1911.

Patented Feb. 20, 1912.

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specification of Letters' Patent. Application led March 15, 1911.

Serial No. $14,574;

To a-ZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, BENJAMIN llVon'rHiNG- rroiv, a cit-izen of the United States, residing at Mozart, in 'the county of Bucks and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Sanitary A .ppliances, of which the following 1s a specification.

My 'invention relates to'sanitary appliances, and more particularly to improved means for dispensing sanitary water closet covers, which may be eectually operated in connection with a coin controlled mechanisnnand adapted to be placed in public In the accompanying drawings: Figure 1,

is a view in vertical section illustrating my improvements. Fig. 2, is a plan view showing the casing or box View in vertical section through the casing, showing theoperating mechanism-in elevation. Iti 4c, is a fragmentary view in elevation of t e cutting roll. Fig. 5, is a broken sectional view, illustrating the meeting sur faces of the two rolls, and showing the groove in one roll to receive the cutter on the other. F ig. 6, is a view of the out blank, and Fig. 7, is a view of t-he blank unfolded, ready for use.

1, represents a box or casing preferably tying a removable .top 2 secured from the irside by screws 3, and provided with a. -`aged bottom d, which may be locked in various ways, a lock being' shown for the purpose.

Inside' of casing l, U-shaped bearings 6 are provided for a shaft 7, on which a transversely disposed roller 8 is secured. This roller 8 coperates with a similar roller 9 below.' The shaft 1 0 of roller 9 is mounted in blocks 1l, which are adjustable in guides l2 by means of screws 13, so as to adjust the s roller Steward roller S, and regulate the pressure on a strip of aper 14, which is wound olf of a roll 15.

casing 1, and is provided in section. Fig. 3, is aA is'roll l5 is mount# ed on a spool 16, and the latter is supported to turn in bearing 17 in the casing. On shaft 7, a gear wheel 18 is secured, and meshes with a gear wheel 19 on an operating shaft 2O which, at 'one end, projects through with a crank arm 21 to turn the same. This ed in adjustable bearings with suitable coin controlled mechanism to regulate the operation of the shaft. The in-l vention, of course, is not limited to any particular coin controlled mechanism, but for purposes of illustration, I have shown a coin guide 23, which directs with a lever 24, and the latter has a hooked end engaging in a notch 25, in Aa disk 26 on shaft 20, so that in order to turn the shaft a complete revolution, it is necessary to drop the proper coin into the casing.

The paper 14 above referred to, is folded the coin into cont-act Patented Feb.' 20,1912.

shaft 2O is mount- 22, and is provided' longitudinally, and feeds between the rolls 8 and 9, and over a platform 27, and through a slot 28, one wall of said slot constituting a straight edge against which the paper is torn.

On roller 8, of the peculiar Figa, so as to form a out in the paper such as shown in lig. 6.l That is, this cutter forms a cut in the pape. from the folded edge of the paper inward in a curved line,

a knife 29 is secured, and is shape shown most clearly in' and then cuts longitudinally ofA the paper. l

To receive the knife 29, roll 9 is made with a correspondingly shaped groove 30, so as to allow the knife to cut clear through the paper, and to more effectuallT guide the paper, roller 9 is provided at its ends with annular flanges 31.

In operation, `when shaft 20 is released b-v l'he insertion of the proper coin, said shafyt is given -a complete revolution, and the coiii controlled means then again locks the shaft. During this complete revolution ofshaft QG, gear 19 turns gear 18 and shaftl 7. This causes rollers 8 and 9 to turn, folded paper through the slo t"28, at the same time making the cut in the, paperas above explained. Ilhen the paper is fed out as .far as it will go, it is then` torn olf against the `straigl'it edge formed by one wall of slot 28, and is ready for use. That is, the paper is opened out as shown in Fig. 7 andthe tongue which forms the opcnin 82, is bent downward and tits against the forward portion of the seat. *Suitable means will, of course, be'provided in the feeding the casing for the reception of coins or checks. I have shown a simple mechanism forl caring for the coins, by providing a raised tongue 33 on the bottom 4, to prevent the coins from fallingv onto the floor when the bottom is opened. Various slight changes might be made in the general form and arrangement of parts described without departing vfrom my invention, and hence I 'do not limit mysel to the precise details set forth, but consider myself at liberty to make such changes and alterations as fairly fall within the spirit and scope ofthe appended claim.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

A: device of the class described, comprising two parallel contacting rolls, a cutter blade projecting from the periphery of: one of said rolls, said blade extending inwardly a distance from one end of the roll and then circumferentially around the roll for a fixed distance, the other roll being provided with corresponding groove, a reel, a casing confining said rolls and said reel and provided with a slot adjacent said rolls, one edge of said slot being formed with a cutting edge,` substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I haveV signed my name to this vspecification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

, BENJAMIN WOR'IHINGTON.

Witnesses:

R. H. KRENKEL, CHARLES E. Porre. 

